5-Minute Vegan Rainbow Salsa Recipe

This colorful rainbow salsa recipe will spruce up any dish or be a delicious dip; it’s loaded with healthy ingredients, it’s easy to make, and it’s ready in only 5 minutes! Vegan, gluten-free.

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Want to hear a funny story?

My dad is a salsa fiend. He always has a jar of half-eaten chunky medium salsa in the fridge.

When I was a kid, I liked salsa too (or maybe it was just the chips) but not all the big chunks of tomatoes. I just liked the salsa juice. Like if you took all the big chunks out, the liquid that was leftover, that’s what I wanted.

I know, weird. Kids like weird stuff until their taste buds develop.

Anyways, when I’d get home from school, while my dad was still at work, I’d get his jar of salsa out of the fridge and dip my chips in until I’d soaked up all of the salsa juice. Later, He’d open the jar of salsa for a snack and only find big chunks of tomatoes, peppers, and onions left.

He just ate it and never said anything so I don’t know if he realized what I was doing or not! Ha!

However, what I did have were the ingredients to make a colorful rainbow salsa recipe!

My mom always told me to eat the rainbow!

Hey, mom! Guess, what? I listened to your advice!

What’s in the Rainbow Salsa Recipe?

Gimme a spoon and I could seriously eat this entire dish of rainbow salsa in one sitting. It’s just a teeny-tiny bit addicting.

It’s the combination of:

crunchy peppers

tangy lime juice

tons of cilantro

juicy tomatoes

sweet corn

buttery black beans

spicy red onion

When you think of salsa, I bet you conjure up images of a tomato-loaded blended salsa that is the absolute perfect consistency for dipping crispy tortilla chips in. Right?

This is not that kind of salsa! It’s chunky, flavorful, and loaded with texture. Plus, it’s beautiful to look at. You eat with your eyes first!

What Makes it Rainbow Salsa?

I’m sure you can tell by now that I call it rainbow salsa because of all the colorful ingredients!

Red – red tomatoes

Orange – orange bell peppers

Yellow – yellow corn

Green – green cilantro

Purple – red onion

Blue – black beans

I know black beans are exactly blue but it’s close enough, okay?! Don’t be a stickler! I guess you could use blueberries but I don’t think that would be as tasty as black beans. Blueberries would be delicious in this watermelon mango kiwi fruit salsa recipe!

Check back in a few days, I’m going to post the recipe for the chipotle walnut quinoa taco meat that you see in the picture above!

How Should You Serve This Rainbow Salsa Recipe?

Well, you have lots of choices.

We eat rainbow salsa piled high on top of tacos, as a dip with tortilla chips, mixed with cilantro lime quinoa and greens for a healthy salad, or just by the spoonful right out of the container.

Really, it’s up to you. There’s no wrong way to eat it!

It’s one of those super versatile recipes that’s so quick and easy to make yet it’s impressive and makes any dish so much better.